Aviación militar, Noticias
China’s People’s Liberation Army has released the first official footage of its sixth-generation fighter jet — believed to be the Chengdu J-36 — in a military video published on 28 June 2026. The brief but unmistakable appearance marks the first time...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will perform over the National Mall on July 4th for the first time in the team’s 73-year history. The flyover anchors what organisers are calling the most ambitious aviation spectacle in American history — a formation...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A naval drone that costs roughly $200,000 can now launch its own swarm of first-person-view attack drones while underway at sea. The Sea Baby unmanned surface vessel — a remotely piloted maritime platform with a 1,500-kilometre range — has evolved from a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A $17.9 million armed overwatch aircraft is a total loss because a trainee pilot turned the wrong valve during a training sortie. The Air Force Special Operations Command investigation into the October 2025 crash of an OA-1K Skyraider II has revealed a chain of errors...
Aviación militar, Noticias
An F-15EX Eagle II has touched down at Kadena Air Base. The newest variant of Boeing’s legendary air superiority fighter landed on Okinawa’s most strategically important airfield on June 29, returning to the Pacific’s frontline base a year after the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The engines Turkey needs for its fifth-generation fighter are on the way — and Washington just wrote the permission slip. The Trump administration has notified Congress of a more than $700 million sale of General Electric F110 turbofan engines for Ankara’s TAI...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion Defence Investment...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A C-130J Super Hercules at a forward operating location. The Hercules has served as the backbone of tactical airlift for seven decades, but the Air Force is now planning its eventual replacement. (U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) Somewhere in the western Pacific,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A Brazilian Air Force KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) on display at NATO Days 2023 in the Czech Republic. The aircraft has rapidly gained traction with European air forces. (Wikimedia Commons) In February 2026, Embraer and Northrop Grumman signed a memorandum of...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere in China’s vast defence-industrial complex, a missile is being built that could fundamentally change the arithmetic of air combat over the Pacific. The PL-16 — Beijing’s next-generation beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile — has never been...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Kelly Johnson built the F-104 Starfighter to do one thing: climb fast, fly high, and kill Soviet bombers before they reached American cities. The Lockheed engineer surveyed Korean War fighter pilots in 1951 and concluded that what they wanted was not another heavy,...
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